Yrjö

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Male Male Name

Usage

Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish

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Origin and Meaning

Finnish younger form of Yria [1] [2]

Related Names

See Yrian

Grammar

Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Yrjö
Genitive: Yrjön
Partitive: Yrjöä
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Yrjö
Genitive: Yrjös

Name Day

Finland Finland

23 April

Further Information

Pronunciation

  • Finnish: [ˈyrjø]

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Yrjö Väisälä (6 September 1891 – 21 July 1971), Finnish astronomer and physicist

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 332 people were named Yrjö (percentage of first or only given name: 71 %) [3]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Finland Finland[4]
n.a.
31585 0 0
n.a.
31585
Sweden Sweden[5]
137 368 0 0 137 368
Denmark Denmark[6]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
Norway Norway[7]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[8]
0 1
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[9]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Yrjö.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  2. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  4. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  5. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  8. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  9. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/